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A video titled "Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010" was one of Manley's early YouTube successes. The video is a computer animation showing a time-lapse of the Solar System from 1980-2010. When the time-lapse reaches the day an asteroid is discovered, it appears on the map as a bright green dot and continues orbiting the Sun.
MinutePhysics is an educational YouTube channel created by Henry Reich in 2011. The channel's videos use whiteboard animation to explain physics-related topics. Early videos on the channel were approximately one minute long. [2] As of March 2024, the channel has over 5.7 million subscribers.
Abraham "Avi" Loeb (Hebrew: אברהם (אבי) לייב; born February 26, 1962) is an Israeli and American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology.. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysi
He hosts several podcasts and a YouTube series, consults for television and film productions, publishes in popular science publications, and gives public lectures on topics in physics and astronomy topics. [1] In 2017, Sutter received the award for "Best Director" at the Escape Velocity Film Festival for his film Song of the Stars. [6]
Veritasium videos have received critical acclaim. Two early successful Veritasium videos demonstrate the physics of a falling Slinky toy. [a] At 2012 Science Online, the video "Mission Possible: Graphene" won the Cyberscreen Science Film Festival [35] and was therefore featured on Scientific American as the video of the week. [36]
Smethurst began creating science communication videos when she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham for the Sixty Symbols YouTube channel, run by Brady Haran and the university's physics department. [4] She also has appeared on Deep Sky Videos, another channel operated by Haran on the theme of astronomy. [14]
Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), [1] also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions.
David Kipping is a British-American astronomer and associate professor at Columbia University, where he leads the Cool Worlds Lab. [1] [2] [3] Kipping grew up in Warwickshire, he studied at Cambridge University and University College London, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University before joining Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2015.